History
Kashii Station opened on 28 September 1890 as an intermediate stop on the Kyushu Railway's Hakata-Akama extension. The Hakata Bay Railway joined the site on 1 January 1904, creating an early interchange, and the Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907. The track became part of the Kagoshima Main Line on 21 November 1909, and the Hakata Bay route was nationalised in 1944 to form the Kashii Line. JR Kyushu took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The current four-storey station building, branded Ekimachi 1-chōme Kashii since 2014, replaced the 1970s depot in March 1996; SUGOCA arrived in 2009, the station forecourt opened in 2019, and a Kashii Area control centre was established on 14 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Both Kashii Station and the nearby Nishitetsu Kashii Station appear as filming locations in the 1958 screen adaptation of Seichō Matsumoto's novel Points and Lines.